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Chapter forty-ninth

I don’t know that outside the Tianjin Bridge, there is someone who is doing it for him in the morning breeze.”

After entering the hall, the ministers submitted a memorial, saying that they would report early if they had something to do, and retreat to the court without any trouble... (Wang Hua also made an memorable report, but after listening to Zhu Quan's opinion, he said it lightly. It was quite a bit cliché.

In fact, this is also a common topic.

The number of fugitives increased, land annexation was serious, and the number of people was sold was large, which became more and more intense during the reign of Wu Zetian. For example, Guo Yuanzhen, the governor stationed in the Western Regions, also worked as a human trafficker, but Lao Wu was lenient with Guo Yuanzhen's charges. On the contrary, because he wrote a "Sword Fu", he valued it even more.

However, it was not only Wang Hua who knew what happened since last autumn and winter. When counting the ministers in the palace, at least half of them heard more or less news. But because of the accumulation of this problem, people became indifferent to it and ignored its seriousness. Even if someone realized the seriousness, the summer grain would be harvested immediately.

The cultivation of cotton does not delay the harvest of summer grain. After Wu Sansi's death, who will fill the new power vacuum is the most important thing.

Another point is that the crime of committing things is not ordinary people, but those involved in these things are the elites of the Tang Dynasty, such as major families, emerging common people, princes and ministers, and Lao Wu was full of energy. He only attacked some of the Guanlong families. Now Lao Wu has returned to tradition when he was dying, not to mention the monarchs and ministers such as Li Xian.

If you really want to open this matter publicly according to what Wang Hua said, it will cause an uproar. One is that Song Mule may retreat when facing this issue. Or he also recognizes the crisis of the situation, but now is not the time to uncover it. Unless it develops to the situation last summer, that is, it is impossible to say that Li Xian will understand the seriousness. Now that he says that there is no effect, he will be indifferent to the trouble of the upper body, it is better not to say it. After Wang Hua finished speaking, the hall was silent, and no minister agreed. Wang Hua did not give any advice, and bowed down and left without saying a word.

Some people were a little surprised that Wang's paintings did not conform to Wang's usual style.

They couldn't help but turn to look at Wang Hua, but saw that his face was very calm, like a lake without clouds and sunny winds.

The minister who knew the development of the situation was even more puzzled.

They are not disappointed with Wang Hua. With Wang Hua's "unscrupulous" only thinking that they want to do, they cannot be afraid of each other's own family. Why is Wang Hua's doing this?

Li Xian breathed a sigh of relief. This topic was too big. Not to mention anything else, even the disciples of the royal family had behaviors such as his own daughters, Princess Taiping and others, so they could not open up this matter.

As for the people, he is a good emperor of peace and will not be cruel to the people like Yang Guang, but he cannot take the people to heart.

This matter has been revealed.

Wang Hua continued to be as usual, and in the Ministry of Revenue, he had a dispute with other colleagues except for those who were really sorry. At other times, he was still a good man. Because in the Ministry of Revenue, except for the miscellaneous yamen runners, 100% of the officials were older than him, so he was very polite to everyone. Even if he was a small pen official.

This made Li Xian very happy.

At this moment, someone from the Wang family in Taiyuan came.

I knew that Wang Hua's cooperation might bring some benefits, otherwise Wang Hua would not have deliberately written this in the letter. But I only thought that like the cooperation with the Wei family, the two parties would find an agent and cooperate, and it would be possible to bring tens of thousands of silk money or even tens of thousands of miles of wealth to the Wang family in a year. Of course, it was also a considerable income, but with Zhu Qi's handling, it was enough.

However, after receiving Zhu Quan's letter, all the elders of the Wang family were alarmed.

Let’s look at the letter together and say numbers. One car of ten thousand marriage money is a concept, but these elders also realized that it is more than one million. Because their family plays a very important role, so Wang Hua still accounts for a big deal, how much will it cost, five million marriage money, or ten million marriage money. What industry has this huge profit?

Unless Wang Hua occupied all the salt industry in the Tang Dynasty, it would be impossible.

If it was said by others, the elders of the Wang family thought that Wang Hua was a madman. But what Wang Hua said was a little bit skeptical. Finally, he decided to let Wang Han's father come to Luoyang in person. If he was convinced, he would admit the cooperation and come back to report it if he was not sure. However, the Wang family was already preparing for Wang Hua's work to transfer the people. This was a few dealings with Wang Hua. The result was to show sincerity.

Wang Han's father immediately came to Luoyang.

Wang Hua's family also treated her carefully. Originally, Wang Yi wanted to call her in-laws, but she could not say this in-laws. Wang Han's father also found it very strange and even a little unhappy. He waited until Wang Hua came back from the Ministry of Revenue on duty.

Before Wang Hua could salute, Wang Han's father said directly: "Mr. Wang, let's go to your study to speak."

He was too lazy to let Wang Hua treat him. Of course, if Wang Hua married Wang Han openly, it might be another attitude. If he hadn't seen his daughter's condition improve, he would have thought of taking her away.

Zhu Quan was beside him, and when he saw Wang Han’s father’s bad attitude, he just smiled and said nothing.

Wang Hua also smiled. If it were his daughter who was determined to be someone else to be a little Teng, he might not be happy.

He led Wang's father and Zhu Quan to the study room, and Wang's father asked directly: "Our Wang family is very happy to cooperate with your mansion. But we must know why you are so confident to bring such huge profits?"

"Uncle, this is the case, because we discovered a continent overseas, and the area may be a little larger than the area actually controlled by our Tang Dynasty."

At its peak, the area reached more than 17 million square kilometers. Even now, with the vassal states, there are nearly 10 million square kilometers. However, the actual area controlled by the Tang Dynasty was only 50 million square kilometers, which was far less than Oceania's area.

But this doesn't mean anything. Now the people of the Tang Dynasty are not very familiar with Europe, but they also know that the countries and the areas of large food are not

Therefore, the old... continued! "In the girl, the noodles are rich in various specialties such as gold, silver, copper and iron, as well as coral Baogong and cave spices. But this is not the main source of wealth. The most important thing is that it has many fertile land, and there are only a few indigenous people on it, living a life of slash-and-burn farming, and not even farming. And the number is very small, maybe one million, maybe two million, but at most only two or three million. It is scattered around the mainland and exists in the form of small tribes."

Wang Hua said that the number of people is quite considerable, but compared with such a large area of ​​land, the number of people is scattered from all directions and is almost negligible.

Since they are partners, Wang Hua also needs to reveal some news to make them feel at ease. And even if they know that the sea is vast, they cannot find this land. Moreover, they have the most advanced ships and knowledge of their previous lives. Even if the Wang family or other families find it, they may not be able to gain a foothold on it.

However, the religion controlled by Mu Zili cannot be expressed, and even Zhu Quan cannot be disclosed to him for the time being.

Wang Hua continued, "So, I sent people to plunder a large number of slaves overseas and develop them on it. However, slaves were not a long-term solution, and they were from other countries. They were not from my race, and their hearts would be different. So later moved out some poor people into this continent. First, people from the same race helped me develop this land, and second, they also solved a way out for these people. But uncle, you know, because the imperial court prohibited access, I could not do this openly, so the migration speed was very slow. Therefore, I found your mansion."

"I understand that the food you transported back is produced from this continent."

"That's only part. After all, the number of people above is still small. Some of them are reserved for food, and some of them must be kept for seeds. I originally told the court that what I obtained from overseas countries is not false. More than half of this batch of food was obtained by other means." Hearing this, Wang's father had already understood what Wang Hua's main source of wealth was.

In addition to letting his family transport people to this place, Wang Hua probably also uses other methods to transport people. There are 20,000 people a year, and in ten years, it will be 20,000 people. In addition, the population will be reproductive, and the number of people will increase. What will happen in twenty years? These are poor people. Wang Hua gave them a way out and was loyal to the Wang family. Then Wang Hua used these tribesmen to control the local indigenous people and slaves. Twenty years later, the number of people actually controlled was at least one million, or even two million.

Then Wang Hua is like a little king.

In fact, it is far from what he thought. With the increase of Wang Hua's wealth and power, the delivery speed will become faster and faster. And once we don't have to worry about food and clothing, the speed of population reproduction will be as high as the imagination of people. Like China in his previous life, he experienced many heavy blows. His life was not very good in the past few decades. Later, his life was better and he had to plan for a family planning, but how long did it take to go from 400 million to more than one billion people? Moreover, Oceania is still encouraging the Han people who moved out to have a large number of children. In twenty years, even Wang Hua himself dared not imagine what kind of people it will reach. Therefore, he thought of a reasonable national model in his mind to manage Oceania.

But so far, he really didn't want to leave the Tang Dynasty and become the king of Oceania.

The father of Wang was thinking about another thing. He did not have to worry about the land he cultivated or the fertile land he had never cultivated. Now, as long as the people have food and clothing and can endure hardships, one person produces 50 stones of grain a year, there is no problem. No wonder Wang Hua had the courage to promise that he would send 5 million stones of grain to the court every year in the future. Not only 5 million stones of grain, but as long as the population is enough, or even 10 million stones of grain, it is not a problem. Moreover, there are other specialties, and this wealth cannot be calculated.

In other words, with the increase of cotton fields, Wang Hua may still control the lifeblood of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, the primary premise is that Wang Hua must have food, and the premise of food is that the people must move there. Therefore, Wang Hua promised to give his family huge benefits.

This is also an open negotiation.

Wang's father pondered for a long time. He was not afraid of danger. Wang Hua just managed an enclave overseas. Even if the court knew about it, he would not be a serious crime. At worst, he would not be the official. He would still be free and easy when he became a local emperor overseas.

He was wondering where this continent was.

After a while, he said, "I promised you."

But looking at Wang Hua's eyes mixed, this kid had such a huge enclave in his hands, and everyone in his family still underestimated it.

Zhu Quan's eyes were shiny. He was thinking that if Wang Hua managed this area well, he could also create a prosperous dynasty. Maybe he could be a prime minister. The infinite cauldron in his heart would not work. He had to talk to this minister that day.

"That's good, uncle, but there is another condition. Because I need to use money now, the first amount of money this year must be slowly transferred to your mansion. However, on New Year's Day, the last batch of grain entered the Tang Dynasty, I will immediately transfer all of it to your mansion. But your mansion must first help me move the people out, because I want to drive out more labor and grab this year's summer grain."

"This year's summer grain?" Wang's father was a little puzzled. This year's summer grain was sown since the end of September last year. No matter what, Wang Hua couldn't grab it.

"It's like this. Because it's in the south of the earth, the seasons are exactly the opposite of those of the Tang Dynasty. This is spring, and where is autumn."

If the people were transported over now, and the people were given some hard work in Oceania in advance and planting winter wheat, the people would be just right where these people would go. Otherwise, Wang Hua would still be very nervous to promise Li Xian that five million stones of food.

This requirement is not too much, and Wang Hua has such a huge enclave and does not have to worry about the money. The Wang father agreed without hesitation, but he was thinking again, why was the Tang Dynasty spring? Where

The meeting was very complete. Wang Hua also showed his trump card, which showed his sincerity. And with such a huge trump card in his hand, his family must further adjust their views on Wang Hua. Or can this kid lower his head and give up more space. He also let his family participate in the development of this husband Lu?

However, the prince immediately woke up and could not be too much in life, especially when dealing with this person with a somewhat extreme personality.

After leaving the study, Wang Han's father also stayed at the Wang family for dinner, but his expression became much softer. Before leaving, he said to Wang Hua: "I handed over my daughter to you, I hope you will treat her well."

Wang Yi was a little confused. In his thoughts, Wang Han's father might come to seek punishment. In fact, after entering the Wang family, the noble middle-aged man's face was dark. But after entering the study, he talked for a while, why did his attitude change? This sentence also meant that he had agreed to the fact that Wang Han was his son Xiao Teng. He is not an ordinary family, and even the Du family in Gong County cannot stand up to him. Why can he agree?

The Wang father did not consider his ideas and turned to Zhu Qi and said, "Mr. Zhu, take care of him."

Zhu Quan also waved his hand and said, "Dalang, take care of yourself." He sighed, today the two companies have agreed to make an agreement, and he is no longer from the Wang family in Taiyuan.

But Wang Hua still underestimated Mu Fangli's ambition. Even the Wang family in Taiyuan underestimated Wang Hua or Mu Fangli's speed. After the cooperation was agreed, Mu Zi Li prepared 15,000 people, and Mu Zi Li arranged it secretly, using religious power to transfer people from all directions. It was even arranged last winter. With the power of the Wang family in Taiyuan, almost all the people were arranged by the end of February. Not only that, in the past two months, Mu Zi Li arranged another 10,000 people to leave the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, this is the current situation. Many landlords embezzled the people, leaving the people homeless and displaced. There is also an increase in human trafficking, but no one has collected this phenomenon. Even if the government has captured it, these people do not know the specific inside story, so they did not alarm the court.

But Wang Hua was shocked and immediately asked Mu Zi Li to stop after learning about it. Although the number of people who may be more than five million or even nearly ten million people fleeing households is negligible, the speed is still too fast.

But after these people entered Oceania, they increased their control and also allowed Elva Hsiao and the others to expand their slaves. However, this time, in addition to some captured slaves, there were also some natives driven out of the mountains and forests of Oceania. By the end of April, the population controlled by the Wang family in Oceania reached more than 200,000, of which more than 30,000 Han people were more than 30,000. They all had the Qi Jia of a small country.

Wang Hua himself didn't care, but the speed of his erection and growth did make some of his "knowledgeable people" develop ambitions.

In addition, Wang Hua asked Zhu Quan and Li Hong to do something together, which was to trade with the Turks in private, buy cotton and other products from the Tang Dynasty, and trade with the Turks, mainly to trade with his "ally" Que Teqin, and obtain a large number of cattle, horses, sheep and livestock from the Turks. These were all missing from Oceania. It turned out that a batch was also entered, but the number was small. Now there is a large population, which not only improves food, but also increases the combat effectiveness of soldiers and farming efficiency. Of course, because the cost is very high, these animals cannot help the people to relieve their misfortune, so they stayed to make seeds.

Another thing is that on February 18th, it was the time of sunshine and sunny that Mo Haixuan officially opened.

Because Wang Hua was still filial to Lao Wu, he was very low-key and a celebration ceremony was not held. It was only in the morning that the gate of Mo Haixuan slowly opened, and the people noticed that it opened today.

But it still caused a sensation. Many scholars rushed over, of course, most of them were good things. But some of the prices were also discouraged. For example, a yellow seal in the field actually costs 1,000 yuan for weddings, and a black dust-filled blue and white Duan inkstone priced at 600 yuan for weddings. However, when the guy put it in the water, everyone knew its secret. These dust-filled blue and white are hard to see with the naked eye, but after entering the water, they swayed like green floating algae on the inkstone.

For example, a jade pen holder costs 800 dimensional value. But everyone can see its craftsmanship of jade works, which is so exquisite that it has never been seen.

The most important store also has a rule that bargaining is prohibited.

Even Song Mule saw that there were several stationery items after entering, but after seeing the price, he shook his head and secretly scolded Wang Hua for being so unscrupulous that he went back. In fact, this idea was wrong. Wang Hua's investment in the early stage reached nearly 100,000 yuan, and it was reasonable to order this price. Moreover, there were not many utensils that were sold at more than 100 combos, and some were made by Wang Hua himself. It was not made by him himself, and because of the rare materials, he personally guided him. If it were not for opening, Wang Hua would not be willing to sell these dozen works.

However, there are many rich masters in Luoyang, and some people still bear the pain of giving up and buy one or two of them you like to go back to enjoy.

Of course, there are more small play pieces that cost hundreds of cents or a few dozen dollars, so that the public can buy them. There are also many works with dozens of silk, but works with exquisite workmanship or materials are also collected and valued. This is the most popular batch of utensils.

But on February 26, when Wang Hua was working in the Ministry of Revenue, Li Hong left the guards in Wang Hua's mansion through Li Guer, and asked him to report to the Ministry of Revenue, saying that the third prince of the Prime Minister, Li Longji, was taking a group of slaves to smash Mo Haixuan.

Wang Hua became popular as soon as he heard this. In addition to the dozens of treasures he collected, all the stationery utensils he made during this period were concentrated in Mo Haixuan. If all were sold, the value would be more than 70,000 yuan. How much else would be left after this money?

Without asking why Li Longji smashed his house, he greeted the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and immediately ran out of the imperial city, crossed the Tianjin Bridge, and rode on his horse and ran all the way.
Chapter completed!
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